Nightmares

Second Edition
Nightmare Dice Pool Description Book
Common Nightmares
Penalize physical traits by -2 and deny Striking Looks.
All Your Teeth Are Falling Intelligence + Satiety vs. Gorged Restrict effective successes on physical rolls to one, or when BTP
Out Stamina + Tolerance exceptional, two. 134
Expenditure Cause a physical action to fail outright.
Deal lethal damage.
Behold, My True Form! Presence + Satiety - Gorged Take 8-Again. BTP
Stamina 134
Expenditure Add a 2L weapon rating.
Inflict the Sick Tilt. BTP
Bugs Everywhere! Presence + Satiety vs. Gorged Add the Poisoned Tilt. 134-
Stamina + Tolerance 135
Expenditure Apply Tilt penalties as bonuses against mental influence.
Inflict -2 to physical actions from delusions of surgical pain.
Don't Take My Leg, Doc! Presence + Satiety vs. Gorged Inflict phantom Arm or Leg Wrack. DEC
Resolve + Tolerance 250
Expenditure Inflict Beaten Down.
Raise the exceptional threshold for a chosen category of
actions to seven.
Everything You Do Is Manipulation + Satiety vs. Restrict effective successes on each roll to one, or when BTP
Worthless Resolve + Tolerance Gorged exceptional, two, unless the victim spends Willpower. 135
Expenditure Reduce an action to a chance die.
Roll a Nightmare at -2 against two victims.
Gorged Against a victim per Satiety dot. BTP
Fear Is Contagious None The victim becomes a contagious Nightmare vector, 135-
Expenditure prompting a Resolve + Composure roll resisted by spent 136
Satiety.
Exceptional successes sap Willpower.
Flying and Falling Manipulation + Satiety vs. Gorged Steal sapped Willpower. BTP
Composure + Tolerance 136
Expenditure Reduce the exceptional threshold to three.
The victim runs away until exhausted.
Run Away Manipulation + Satiety vs. Gorged Designate a subject to flee from or to. BTP
Composure + Tolerance 136
Expenditure +3 Speed, but Athletics failures inflict lethal damage from
carelessness.
Inflict Broken, Distracted, or Fugue by dredging up memories
Manipulation + Satiety vs. of trauma. DEC
Soldier's Heart Resolve + Tolerance Gorged Deny access to Mental Merits. 250
Expenditure Cause a mental action to fail outright.
Roll a Nightmare at -2 to affect the next person that falls
asleep in the targeted room
The Walls Have Eyes None Gorged The Nightmare affects the next person that enters the room. BPG
89
Expenditure Removes
three.
the -2 penalty, lowers the exceptional threshold to
Inflict the Paranoid Condition with a chosen delusional focus.
They Are All Around You Manipulation + Satiety vs. Gorged The focus induces rage on a Resolve + Composure failure. BTP
Composure + Tolerance 136
Expenditure -2 against breaking points, but reduce the exceptional
threshold to rail against the focus to three.
-3 penalty to all rolls to persuade or empathize with others.
Manipulation + Satiety vs. Gorged Raise the exceptional threshold for Social rolls to seven (can BPG
They Don’t Love You Composure + Tolerance be removed for a single action at the cost of 1 Willpower). 89
Expenditure The victim can’t use her Virtue (or equivalent) to regain
Willpower.
The victim must roll Stamina + Composure to eat a meal, and
gains the Sick Tilt (moderate) in case of a failure
They Put Something In Presence + Satiety vs. Perceiving food or hear it being mentioned causes the Sick Tilt BPG
Your Food Resolve + Tolerance Gorged (grave). 89
Expenditure The effect lasts one more day per Satiety spent.
Inflict the Spooked Condition for the rest of the scene.
Manipulation + Satiety vs. Gorged Gain the 8-again when manipulating a Spooked victim. BPG
They Walk Amongst Us Resolve + Tolerance All failures on Social rolls are counted as dramatic failures. 90
Expenditure All attempts to use Social maneuvering by the victim must use
hard leverage.
Any attempt from the victim’s part to complete a specified
project costs 1 Willpower.
This Is Due Tomorrow Manipulation + Satiety vs. Gorged Any failure on a roll related to the project counts as a dramatic BPG
Resolve + Tolerance failure. 90
Expenditure Inflicts
project.
the Fugue Condition, triggered by trying to finish the
Inflict -2 to social actions from delusions of a rejected or
persecuted identity.
This Isn't My Skin! Presence + Satiety vs. The victim can only contest actions with one maximum DEC
Composure + Tolerance Gorged success. 250
Expenditure Deny Virtue and Vice.
The victim must roll to retain control over her vehicle, and
suffers -2 to all her driving rolls.
We’re Going Down! Presence + Satiety vs. Gorged All of the victim’s failed Drive rolls count as dramatic failures. BPG
Composure + Tolerance 91
Expenditure The victim attempts to accelerate every turn she's driving a
vehicle.
You Are Alone Manipulation + Satiety vs.
Resolve + Tolerance
You Are Not Alone Manipulation + Satiety vs.
Resolve + Tolerance
You Can’t Dig It Out Presence + Satiety vs.
Stamina + Tolerance
You Can't Wake Up None
Wits + Satiety vs. Resolve
You Cannot Run Tolerance
Presence + Satiety vs.
You Deserve This Composure + Tolerance
You Must Obey Presence + Satiety vs.
Resolve + Tolerance
Presence + Satiety vs.
You’re One of Us Resolve + Tolerance
You Were Never Right Intelligence + Satiety vs.
Resolve + Tolerance
You Will Never Rest Wits + Satiety vs. Stamina Gorged
+ Tolerance
Checking It Twice Presence + Satiety vs.
(Wizened Changeling) Composure + Tolerance
Cursed Object (Maa-Kep Manipulation + Satiety vs. Gorged
Mummy) Resolve + Tolerance
Dead Hunger (Sobeki) Manipulation + Satiety vs.
Composure + Tolerance
Death Is a Prison (Sin- Presence + Satiety vs.
Eater) Resolve + Tolerance
Everyone Hates You Manipulation + Satiety vs. Gorged
(Promethean) Composure + Tolerance
Everything You Know Is A Intelligence + Satiety vs.
Lie (Mage) Resolve + Tolerance
Evil Doll (Unfleshed Presence + Satiety vs.
Promethean) Composure + Supernatural
Tolerance
Interaction with others costs Willpower and suffers -2. BTP
Gorged Use even basic human interaction as soft leverage. 136-
137
Expenditure Deny teamwork actions, but the first two attacks in a turn don't
reduce Defense.
-2 to perception from avoidant focus.
Gorged Designate a focus to avoid and ignore. BTP
137
Expenditure Deny reflexive perception, but reduce exceptional threshold
for a chosen extended action to three.
Inflict the Sick Tilt (moderate)
Gorged Inflict the Paranoid Condition. BPG
91
Expenditure Unless stopped, the victim deals herself lethal damage.
Roll a Nightmare at -2 to reserve a reactivation within 24
hours.
Gorged Roll a Nightmare at -2 to extend its duration to a day. BTP
137
Expenditure Suffer no penalty, and reduce the Nightmare's exceptional
threshold to three.
Half Speed and inflict -2 to any action except hiding.
+ Gorged The victim must roll Resolve + Composure each turn or stand BTP
frozen in place. 137
Expenditure Even acknowledgement by another person causes the Fugue
Condition.
Inflict the Guilty Condition.
Gorged Inflict Beaten Down. BTP
The victim must spend Willpower to apply Defense for a turn. 137-
Expenditure Invert wound penalties into bonuses, and stay conscious while 138
full of bashing damage.
The victim must obey your commands or face breaking points.
Gorged Issue complicated commands, or sequential commands up to
Satiety. BTP
The victim either recovers Willpower or reduces the 138
Expenditure exceptional threshold to three when carrying out each
command.
The victim gains the Delusional Condition, believing she’s a
given type of supernatural entity
Gorged Opportunities for the victim to reinforce her delusional BPG
identity count as soft leverage in Social maneuvering. 91
The victim must roll Resolve + Composure to resist an
Expenditure opportunity to “feed”. She gains the 8-again quality to rolls
that brings her closer to feeding.
Using one specified Mental Skill costs 1 Willpower, and its
exceptional threshold rises to seven instead of five.
Gorged All failures on Mental rolls by the victim are counted as BPG
dramatic failures. 92
Expenditure Deny Merits tied to “knowledgeable sources” for the
Nighmare’s duration.
Inflict fatigue as per 24 hours sleepless.
As per 24 hours per Satiety dot, and any resulting sleep is BTP
unsatisfying and difficult to rouse. 138
Expenditure Designate up to your Wits in panic triggers.
Kinship Nightmares
The victim gains the Obsession Condition for an object they
can toy with.
Gorged Any action the victim takes other than rechecking the object BPG
requires a reflexive Resolve + Composure roll. 92
Expenditure The Obsession Condition remains even after the Nightmare
expires.
Inflict the Cursed Condition while the victim owns a chosen
object.
Designate yourself as able to lift the curse. Enjoy soft BTP
leverage. 142-
143
Expenditure Pass the Nightmare's effects along with ownership of the
object.
Inflict Sick Tilt during action scenes, and a general −2 to all
actions in other scenes.
Gorged The victim cannot spend Willpower except in pursuit of DE2
feeding herself. 30
Expenditure The victim is driven to deal one point of lethal damage per
Satiety point spent via consuming flesh.
All damage accrues wound penalties, up to -5.
Gorged Inflict the Wanton Condition. BTP
141-
Expenditure Convince
person.
the victim he is a ghost, haunting a specific place or 142
Inflict -2 to social rolls from irritable defensiveness.
Inflict the Agoraphobic Condition. BTP
140
Expenditure Deny access to a Social Merit.
The victim loses access to Specialties and 10-again for the
duration of the Nightmare.
Gorged The victim must reroll any dice that come up successes when BPG
using any Skill in which has a Specialty. 92
Expenditure The Beast chooses a Skill category. Within that category, the
victim treats all Skills as untrained.
The victim becomes convinced that some object is a monster . BPG
As long as the object remains in the room the character has the 93
Spooked Condition.
Gorged If the victim destroys the object, she believes that another
object in the room has become possessed .
 Expenditure The victim suffers the object’s equipment bonus in lethal
damage.
The victim gains the Leveraged Condition.
Manipulation + Satiety vs. Gorged The Beast gains access to a number of the victim’s Social
Family is Forever Resolve + Supernatural Merit dots equal to the Beast’s Satiety at the activation of the BPG
(Vampire) Tolerance Nightmare. 93
Expenditure The Beast may make requests that would normally require
blackmail or weeks of cajoling.
Inflict the Amnesia Condition, temporarily stripping a swath
Presence + Satiety vs. of memory. BTP
Tabula Rasa (Mummy) Resolve + Tolerance Gorged Temporarily strip or return any amount of memory. 142
Expenditure Render the Condition Persistent.
Force a Clash of Wills to redirect supernatural powers to the
The Void Is Waiting (Low- Intelligence + Satiety vs. victim. BTP
Wisdom Mage) Resolve + Tolerance Gorged Inflict lethal damage on the source of a redirected power. 140
Expenditure Cause a supernatural power to fail outright.
The victim gains the Paranoid Condition,feeling compelled to
hoard material resources to ensure his ownsurvival.
The Water Won’t Last Presence + Satiety vs. As long as thevictim is under the effect of the Nightmare, he is BPG
Forever(Hunter in Darkness Composure + Tolerance Gorged treated as hostile for all Social Maneuvering actions short of 93
Werewolf) hard leverage.
Expenditure The Beast may spend Satiety. For each Satiety spent the
Nightmare persists for another day.
Obsess the victim with protecting some secret from discovery.
We Know All Your Secrets Wits + Satiety vs. Resolve + Gorged The victim lowers her guard around you, taking -2 to social BTP
(Mekhet Vampire) Tolerance rolls. 138-
139
Expenditure The victim compulsively blurts out secrets.
The victim suffers a –2 penalty to actions that are not in his
own self-interests.
You Are A Meat Intelligence + Satiety vs. Gorged The victim loses a point of Willpower whenever he acts takes BPG
Machine(Promethean) Resolve + Tolerance any action without obvious benefit. 93
Expenditure The victim gains the Fugue Condition when being forced to
make a moral or ethical decision.
Reverse Virtue and Vice.
Gorged Forestall breaking point and negate penalties from risking BTP
You Are Better Than Them Manipulation + Satiety vs. them. 139-
(Mage) Resolve + Tolerance The victim reduces the exceptional threshold to pursue an 140
Expenditure aspiration to three, but is impelled to crush those who stand in
his way.
The victim believes herself a copy of you and becomes
defensively contrarian.
You Are an Impostor Presence + Satiety vs. Gorged Share suffered damage and adverse Conditions with the BTP
(Mannikin Changeling) Composure + Tolerance victim. 141
Expenditure The victim loses feeling, wound penalties, and the use of
Anchors. Social failures become dramatic.
Roll a Nightmare at -2 to target anyone who has tasted your
blood within a day.
You Are Infected (Vampire) None Gorged Roll a Nightmare at -4 to target your blood, activating on a BTP
victim's exposure. 138
Expenditure Suffer no penalty, and reduce the Nightmare's exceptional
threshold to three.
Inflict the Lost Condition.
BTP
You Are Lost (Changeling) Manipulation + Satiety vs. Gorged
Resolve + Tolerance
Failure to temporarily reorient causes dramatic failure. 140-
Expenditure The victim must make an orientation roll to avoid wandering
out of the Earthly realm.
141
The victim can't gauge your condition, and only inflicts
You Cannot Kill It Manipulation + Satiety vs. bashing damage. BTP
(Tammuz Promethean) Composure + Tolerance Gorged Inflict a -2 weapon rating against you. 140
Expenditure Ignore all but one point of bashing damage from the victim.
Deny access to Social Merit dots through ennui.
You Can't Take It with You Manipulation + Satiety - Gorged Obsess the victim with a chosen possession or relationship. BTP
(Bonepicker Sin-Eater) Resolve 142
Expenditure Strip Social Merit dots by causing the victim to burn bridges.
The victim gains the Delusional Condition.
The player may select a number of rolls equal to the successes
You Have Foreseen This Intelligence + Satiety vs. Gorged rolled on the Nightmare activation roll that the victim knows BPG
(Acanthus Mage) Resolve + Tolerance are destined to fail. 94
Expenditure After the Delusional Condition is resolved, the victim loses
10-again for the scene.
The victim lashes out violently, either striking a target down or
Your Rage Consumes You Presence + Satiety vs. driving them away. BTP
(Werewolf) Composure + Tolerance Gorged The rage persists. 139
Expenditure The victim cannot be Beaten Down and takes +2 to fighting.
The victim gains the Beaten Down Tilt.
Your Struggle Won’t Presence + Satiety vs. Gorged The Beast regains one Willpower when the victim spends a BPG
Matter(Torn Sin-Eater) Resolve + Tolerance point of Willpower to fight back.. 94
Expenditure For every Satiety spent, the Beast reduces one attack by the
victim to a chance die.
The victim must make a Resolve + Composure roll to ask
somebody else for something he needs.
You Should Fade Away Presence + Satiety vs. Gorged The victim gains the Swooning Condition with whomever BPG
(Silent Sin-Eater) Resolve + Tolerance chooses to address him. 94
Expenditure To try and get someone’s attention,the victim rolls Presence +
Resolve if human, or Presence + Tolerance if not.
Your Tools Betray You Presence + Satiety vs. Inflict -2 to tool or equipment use through fearful delusions. BTP
(Iron Master Werewolf) Composure + Tolerance Gorged Deny equipment bonuses and weapon ratings. 139
 Expenditure Dramatic failures with tools self-inflict lethal damage.
The victim gains the Agoraphobic Condition..
You Will Be First Against Presence + Satiety vs. Gorged The victim may no longer benefit from Teamwork actions with BPG
the Wall (Carthian Vampire) Composure + Tolerance others. 94
Expenditure Any room that has more than two people is treated as a large
crowd by the Agoraphobic Condition.
Uncommon Nightmares
Must be taught to those who have swam the Makara floodways. May apply
teamwork. Only functions in Vancouver.
Inflict the Abruption Condition on a supernatural being who is
Your Strength Is Your Manipulation + Satiety - not a Beast, Hero, or mage. BTP
Weakness Resolve Take 8-Again against the victim with soft leverage, or the rote 267
Gorged quality with hard.
Expenditure Inflict lethal damage when the victim attempts to use a
supernatural power.
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